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Sometimes you want a quick bit of feedback from your audience

What’s the best time for the yoga class you’re teaching? Which of six choices is the perfect name for that new yogurt flavor? Where should the team hold its next offsite meeting? Who will win the next election? Which polling websites are worth your time?

A super tool for on-the-spot feedback, online polls let you check in with your audience or customers any time. When you do, you send the message that you know they’re there and their opinions matter.

How to create an online poll

Create and deliver online polls quickly and easily. If you don’t already have a SurveyMonkey account, sign up for free and you can create and launch your online poll in minutes.

How to create a poll that’s easy to find, you ask? Just email or post the link to your poll online – or display it in a popup window on your blog or website. (You can also buy high-quality responses through our automated consumer panel SurveyMonkey Audience.)

Use the feedback to make better decisions, and share the results of the poll with your audience.

Using online polls is an easy way to ask your audience for instant feedback on just about anything. Here are a few ways you can use SurveyMonkey polls:

Audience Engagement

Add an element of fun to the experience by using online polls to keep your website visitors or Facebook or Twitter followers interested and engaged.

Agencies and government office can quickly gauge citizen feedback to proposed changes or gather suggestions with an online poll.

You don’t have to spend loads of money to get answers. You just need to take advantage of our smart, cost-effective tools. Not sure how to reach the right people? SurveyMonkey Audience gives you access to millions of respondents ready to provide the answers you need to make critical decisions.

3 Quick Tips to Improve Your Polls

1. Keep it short and simple

Use a multiple choice format, with a maximum of one to five questions for quick polling.

2. Make it about them

Use polls to encourage your audience’s engagement. Ask for their opinions and preferences – and make it fun!

3. Keep rating scale questions consistent

If you’re using Likert scales, use the same points system for all questions. If 1 means “extremely satisfied” and 5 means “extremely dissatisfied,” maintain it across your short poll.

Sample online polls

Use one of our survey templates as the basis for your online poll, or start with one or more of the many methodologically sound and certified questions in our Question Bank. While all of our questions are written by professional survey methodologists, you can also customize questions to fit your polling needs. (At this time, most of our survey templates are in English only, although we do plan to offer them in other languages soon.)

Just for Fun

Poll for opinions on game night. Vacation spots. Movies. Menus. Home makeovers. If you can think it up, you can create an online poll about it!